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basketball

[bas-kit-bawl, bah-skit-] / ˈbæs kɪtˌbɔl, ˈbɑ skɪt- /
NOUN
team sport
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Maxwell played football as a freshman and then focused on basketball, but he is set to return to football as a senior.

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The sun peeks through the morning marine layer as Soboroff stops at a plaque on the sole standing structure, a New Deal-era basketball gym.

From Los Angeles Times

A look at the top 25 high school boys’ basketball teams in the Southland this week.

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Charter schools Birmingham, Palisades and Granada Hills have separated themselves in virtually all City Section sports including basketball.

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That’s why she put together one of the most grueling schedules in all of college basketball, with four games against teams currently ranked in the top four.

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